Quotes About Leadership

Pass the Ball Enlightened leaders deliberately hand over responsibility in order to create engaged team-players able to adapt their approach to suit the conditions. 'Command & Control' in a VUCA world is unwieldy and increasingly uncompetitive.

Create the highest possible operating standards, develop the character of your players, develop the culture of your team and, as the title of Walsh's book proclaims, The Score Takes Care of Itself.

Wise leaders seek to understand how the brain reacts to stress and practise simple, almost meditative techniques to stay calm, clear and connected. They use maps, mantras and anchors to navigate their way through highly pressurized situations, both personal and professional, and to bring themselves back to the moment. In this way they and their teams stay on top of their game and on top of the situation.

Sweeping the sheds. Doing it properly. So no one else has to. Because no one looks after the All Blacks. The All Blacks look after themselves.

Leaders create leaders. They arm their subordinates with intent. And then step out of the way.

From ancient theology to contemporary psychology, our words shape our story and this story becomes the framework for our behaviors; and our behaviors determine the way we lead our life and the way we run our organizations.

si estableces una cultura del esfuerzo más elevada que la de tu oponente, ganas. Así pues, en lugar de obsesionarte por los resultados, te concentras en el equipo»

A collection of talented individuals without personal discipline will ultimately and inevitably fail. Character triumphs over talent.

Los líderes crean líderes. Dotan de intención a sus subordinados. Y se quitan de en medio.

Leaders create leaders by passing on responsibility, creating ownership, accountability and trust.

Humility does not mean weakness, but its opposite. Leaders with mana understand the strength of humility. It allows them to connect with their deepest values and the wider world.

Successful leaders balance pride with humility: absolute pride in performance; total humility before the magnitude of the task.

Most leaders who fail,' Bill George says in an interview with Pamela Hawley, 'really suffer from a lack of a strong identity, belief in themselves and, to be frank, respect for themselves.

Porque la fuerza de la manada es el lobo, y la fuerza del lobo es la manada.

Successful leaders look beyond their own field to discover new approaches, learn best practices and push the margins. Then they pass on what they have learned.

If you think of physical conditioning, technical understanding and tactical appreciation as forming three legs,' Wayne Smith tells writer Gregor Paul, 'the stool isn't balanced unless you have psychological strength as well.

There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.

Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.

The same station in life, one should note, in which the youthful Houston had stood in relation to Andrew Jackson. One of the most remarkable but least remarked on facts of Sam Houston's life is that he habitually collected about him young protégés and informal wards, even as Jackson had done.

Both in concept and infrastructure American democracy was majestic, but when one came down to the actual, individual men who worked behind those imposing marble facades, the people were as likely as not to elect seedy, shortsighted, self-serving jingoes who embarrassed their offices.

Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die.

Is it too imaginative to say that if the Schlieffen Plan had worked, Adolf Hitler might have remained a private in the List Regiment and Joseph Stalin a Georgian peasant?

James L. Stokesbury

Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks.